This is the second in a series of posts about the opening of the Paradiso.   Part 1       Part 2       Part 3       Part 4       Part 5 ...

ὃς   ἐφ᾽   ἡμετέρᾳ   γᾷ   Πολυνείκους   ἀρθεὶς   νεικέων   ἐξ   ἀμφιλόγων   ὀξέα   κλάζων   ἀετὸς   εἰς   γᾶν   ὣς   ὑπερέπτα ,  λευκῆς...

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in...